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The sun direction and elevation are a little different every time I go through here. We'll probably revisit this in our December workshop.
One of the places that I most enjoy photographing are slot canyons. I used to do quite a bit of technical canyoneering, rappelling into beautiful canyons, and spending many hours exploring them. Now I look for places I can access without ropes and a dry suit to try to get a few photos. This particular canyon is a technical canyon from the top down, but there is also a walk in entrance from the bottom, giving access to a few beautiful compositions. On this particular morning I was very busy trying to stay ahead of the quick light changes and ridiculous wind. The canyon was acting like a wind tunnel and I was getting mouthfuls of sand and fine grit!! There had not been any recent rain, so the canyon floor wan't particularly clean of debris and some tracks. It was not the most enjoyable photo shoot, but I made the best of it. Here is one of the few compositions I got that day.
Nikon D850 with Nikkor 14-24mm F2.8 at 24mm, F11, shutter speed varied for exposure , focused stacked and exposure blende
This is one of the most spectacular slot canyons I've had the privilege to explore. With huge walls, running water, and soft reflected light, what more would a photographer need? I love the desert Southwest with all the varied landscapes that it has to offer. And of course, we love taking photographers out to enjoy it firsthand!
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Updated KeepSix.com with a 2nd update for November 2011. Check there for a lot more new pics.
Happy Monday! While exploring a remote slot canyon, we came across a lone desert bighorn. He was very surprised to see us and had come into the canyon looking for shade and water. He was on high alert and began to run up one side of the canyon. When the walls got too steep, he turned around and ran up the other side. He kept going back and forth, not knowing which way to go. Finally, he came down to the bottom, got the courage, and did a full sprint past us (we gave him plenty of space). You never know what you're going to find when you're exploring the desert!
A view back as we entered Lower Antelope slot canyon. This was an almost impossible view because of the extreme range of tones from dark of the canyon walls to the bright blue sky. HDR saved the day in this situation. 5xp hdr
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This one is from a few weeks ago, when it was more than tropical with light that hard that it is hard to imagine you can make a decent picture. But in this setting the light helped to let the colors of the diverse parts of this picture to better come out. At least four very clear colors are in this shot,
Slot Loevesteijn is one of the best known castles in the netherlands, (if you want to know more about it, go to www.slotloevestein.nl/)
Camera: ONDU MultiFormat Mk I pinhole camera @ 6x12
Pinhole: f/160
"Focal length": 40mm
Exposure: 15 secs
Film: Foma Fomapan 400 Action developed in Kodak Xtol Replenished
While scouting for a good site to capture yesterday's post (see first comment) I noted a deep canyon that appeared to penetrate the first abrupt rise of the San Rafael Swell, called the San Rafael Reef.
Naturally, I looked into this deep, narrow canyon that is not quite a slot canyon. Basement and walls of sandstone, accented with many murals of tafoni--holes in sandstone. An example of tafoni is in the sunlight on the wall to the left, about half way up.
The striated sandstone that brought me to this part of the reef is more apparent on the other side of this canyon.
For a metric to help your perception of the magnitude of this canyon, note my shadow low on the wall to the left.
Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona, USA
As you wind your way through Lower Antelope Canyon, every now and then the sky reveals itself through the slot-like openings at the top of the canyon. The sunlight brings out different hues of orange and purple in the rock walls, the layers and wavy lines of which have been carved out by centuries of time.
I am in a slot canyon in Arizona. It is on Navaho reservation land. There are other people in the canyon. I shoot away from my tripod in the canyons. When most of the mixed light opportunities come from shooting upward and at strange angles, being tied to one spot offers little advantage. The major concern off try-pod is getting a sharp shot at 1/60 and that just requires breathing and bracing. I took over 300 shots
of various reflection and shadow combinations.
This gives you an idea of how narrow it was walking through the slot canyon. I was told that the canyon floods during a hard rain and the floor level rises with additional sand that is carried into the canyon.
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Slot Loevestein - Poederoijen
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On vacation and en-route to some Ol' guy's birthday party in Maui recently, Julie and I were exiting the parking lot. She was talking away when she realized I had fallen into that photographic fugue that frequently overcomes me. As she viewed me 50 feet back from her, she asked me "Just what are you taking a picture of now?" I replied, "this coconut parked in slot 50"! She laughed, rolled her eyes and shook her head in the affirmative and simply replied, "of course you are! I mean, who doesn't do that when they see a coconut in the parking lot?"
It seemed oddly funny to me, but my humor can be a bubble shy of level at times. I would describe it as wry, but that would ascribe some sort sophistication underlying the chuckles that overcome me in the most innocuous situations. My sons have variously described it as cheesy when they were young. Today, they simply make the sound track noise from a game show where the contestant offers up the Wrong Answer - "Wonhhh-Wahhh" (check the spelling here). And DON'T get me started on their humor.
You have to admit, an isolated coconut occupying a parking slot is funny, No....???